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Best Tech Talks 2016, Ranked by Hacker News

First recommended on Hacker News in 2016, still worth watching: these 90 tech talks and lectures earned 336 recommendations across the years.

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DEF CON 23 - Chris Domas - Repsych: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering

DEFCONConference

Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2026

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CppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior..."

CppCon

Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2026

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Connections between physics and deep learning

MITCBMM

Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2026

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MountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk

Confreaks

Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2024

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The "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch

Gabriel Robins

Recommended 4× on HN · 2016–2021

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The Surprising History of Copyright and What It Means For...

Google TechTalks

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2021

3 mo on HN

Linux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016

GitHub

Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2023

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Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation

stri8ted

Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2023

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Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules

Google TechTalks

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022

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Black Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies

Black Hat

Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2019

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Emojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App

Tom Scott

Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2019

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"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell

Strange Loop Conference

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2023

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Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

@Scale

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022

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CppCon 2015: Timur Doumler “C++ in the Audio Industry”

CppCon

Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2026

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Joscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)

Joscha Bach

Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2019

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The Unix Chainsaw - Gary Bernhardt

timmonta

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022

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DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)

DEFCONConference

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022

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Tuesday @ 1130 ISA Shootout – a Comparison of RISC V, ARM, and x86 Chris Celio, UC Berkeley V2

RISC-V International

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2020

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Rethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015

Infosys Foundation USA

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2019

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Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example

Brian Will

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022

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Philip Wadler - Propositions as Types (Lambda Days 2016)

Erlang Solutions

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2021

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Cory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2024

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Macworld 1997: The return of Steve Jobs

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2026

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01 The History of Standard ML: Ideas, Principles, Culture

ICFP Video

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022

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CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “Declarative Control Flow"

CppCon

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2022

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DEFCON 19: Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation (w speaker)

Christiaan008

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2024

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[Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X

HackersOnBoard

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2023

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BetrFS: A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System

Microsoft Research

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2023

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Analyzing Programs with Z3

Compose Conference

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2021

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Anthony Scopatz - xonsh - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2025

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Antichamber: An Overnight Success, Seven Years In The Making

GDC Festival of Gaming

Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2024

Best Tech Talks 2016, Ranked by Hacker News

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DEF CON 23 - Chris Domas - Repsych: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering

RailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something

Lecture 19: Dynamic Programming I: Fibonacci, Shortest Paths

2. Behavioral Evolution

Moishe Lettvin - What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google

CppCon 2015: Sean Parent "Better Code: Data Structures"

CppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior..."

Connections between physics and deep learning

MountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk

The "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch

The Surprising History of Copyright and What It Means For...

Linux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016

Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation

Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules

Black Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies

Emojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App

"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell

Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

CppCon 2015: Timur Doumler “C++ in the Audio Industry”

Joscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)

The Unix Chainsaw - Gary Bernhardt

DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)

Tuesday @ 1130 ISA Shootout – a Comparison of RISC V, ARM, and x86 Chris Celio, UC Berkeley V2

Rethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015

Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example

Philip Wadler - Propositions as Types (Lambda Days 2016)

Cory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way - PyCon 2016

Macworld 1997: The return of Steve Jobs

01 The History of Standard ML: Ideas, Principles, Culture

CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “Declarative Control Flow"

DEFCON 19: Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation (w speaker)

[Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X

BetrFS: A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System

Analyzing Programs with Z3

Anthony Scopatz - xonsh - PyCon 2016

Antichamber: An Overnight Success, Seven Years In The Making